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?Scaling Mobile Technology for Community College Students: 5 Tips for Entrepreneurs

Edsurge

After three years of utilizing a BYOD (bring your own device) policy with my classes at Nassau Community College, I have seen how tools like tablets and laptops can lead to better academic engagement. Many of my students find themselves composing essays across a variety of devices, phones, personal laptops or campus desktops.

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Digital natives still clamor for print materials

eSchool News

-Early afternoon at the California State University, Sacramento, student union, and noses are buried in screens big and small – laptops, tablets and smartphones, all glowing and demanding attention. He’s using it to prop up his laptop, open to an electronic text he’s perusing.

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Can Technology in the Classroom Replace Expensive Textbooks

Kitaboo on EdTech

Smartphones, tablets, and laptops had become a permanent requirement along with using technology in the classrooms by this time. If educational institutes start adopting OERs in classrooms, students will be able to save a lot of money that would otherwise be spent on purchasing textbooks and rental subscriptions.

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From here to there: Musings about the path to having good OER for every course on campus

Iterating Toward Openness

I spend most of my time doing fairly tactical thinking and working focused on moving OER adoption forward in the US higher education space. In this vision of the world, OER replace traditionally copyrighted, expensive textbooks for all primary, secondary, and post-secondary courses. My end goal isn’t to increase OER adoption.

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100+ Ways to Use a Chromebook in the Classroom – SULS033

Shake Up Learning

The platform gives teachers and administrators the flexibility to mix and match content from a growing number of open educational resources (OER), to digitize existing content, or to build their own. . “ASSISTments allows teachers to assign what they want, when they want, free of charge. Assist students through immediate feedback.

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Looking backward and forward

Kathy Schrock

With a simple app on a smartphone, such as Google Street View ( iOS | Android ) to create the image and a set of low-cost headsets, students can both share and view images from around the world. The ability to share and use local landmarks, trips, buildings, etc., But these are just my opinions.

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Digital Courseware or ePUB – Which is the Future of Higher Education?

Kitaboo on EdTech

Open Educational Resources (OER) Products – OER course products are developed based on open resources and utilize instructional design and professional services. According to Pearson , 88% students own laptops, 85% use smartphones and 50% own tablets. Digital Learning Material is the Future of Higher Ed.

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